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Re: Academy Award nominations are out

Originally Posted by BuckeyeRed27

If I had a vote I'd go:

Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty

I am going to be honest.... I don't think it was that special of a movie. If it hadn't been about getting Bin Laden and had been about getting some fictional character instead, I can't see it getting anywhere near the kind of buzz it did get. Solid movie, but it isn't a special movie.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

Originally Posted by dougdirt

I am going to be honest.... I don't think it was that special of a movie. If it hadn't been about getting Bin Laden and had been about getting some fictional character instead, I can't see it getting anywhere near the kind of buzz it did get. Solid movie, but it isn't a special movie.

That's true, but it is about getting Bin Laden not some fictional character. I think that (and the fact it was very well acted and executed) is what makes it a special movie.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

That's true, but it is about getting Bin Laden not some fictional character. I think that (and the fact it was very well acted and executed) is what makes it a special movie.

Then the movie simply wasn't as good.

If the movie and story were so good, then it would be just as good if it were about getting you or I. But it wasn't. It is playing on the emotional feelings we all have with getting him. And man, it felt good. But that doesn't make the movie on it's own good or bad. As I said, the movie was solid. But it wasn't special.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

Originally Posted by dougdirt

Then the movie simply wasn't as good.

If the movie and story were so good, then it would be just as good if it were about getting you or I. But it wasn't. It is playing on the emotional feelings we all have with getting him. And man, it felt good. But that doesn't make the movie on it's own good or bad. As I said, the movie was solid. But it wasn't special.

I'm sorry I just don't agree with this point. Lincoln wouldn't have been as good as a movie if it was about a fictional character. It was a good movie because it was about someone that we all know and have some sort of feelings about.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

Originally Posted by BuckeyeRed27

I'm sorry I just don't agree with this point. Lincoln wouldn't have been as good as a movie if it was about a fictional character. It was a good movie because it was about someone that we all know and have some sort of feelings about.

That makes the subject good, but not necessarily the movie. I haven't seen Lincoln yet, so I can't comment on it. On the basis of the actual movie, not the subject, it simply wasn't something all that great.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

Originally Posted by dougdirt

That makes the subject good, but not necessarily the movie. I haven't seen Lincoln yet, so I can't comment on it. On the basis of the actual movie, not the subject, it simply wasn't something all that great.

I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree.
It was going to be a lot easier to get that movie wrong than it was to get it right. I thought it was perfectly paced and incredibly well acted and suspenseful. There was a TV movie verision of the hunt for Bin Laden sometime last fall that was the perfect example of what not to do and ZDT nailed it.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

I was disappointed that Skyfall was not nominated for Best Picture. I would not have expected it to win but I was hoping it would get a nomination. It was clearly the best (though only)movie that I saw last year.

Re: Academy Award nominations are out

Originally Posted by BuckeyeRed27

I suppose we will just have to agree to disagree.
It was going to be a lot easier to get that movie wrong than it was to get it right. I thought it was perfectly paced and incredibly well acted and suspenseful. There was a TV movie verision of the hunt for Bin Laden sometime last fall that was the perfect example of what not to do and ZDT nailed it.

I thought it moved fairly slowly. It was well acted, but I have seen better.

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